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Originally Posted by Jacques Reed
Also: avoid jury rigged fuel tanks. If you want to read a good example of that, read about the 1995 disastrous attempt to salvage a rare B-29 named "Kee Bird" from the Greenland ice. A priceless WW2 aircraft was lost because of just that.
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Yes indeed, the problem with Kee Bird was a jury rigged fuel tank for the petrol APU which was bounced up and down during a taxi run causing fuel to spill, absolute tragedy as one life had already been sacrificed to get it to that point and all they could do was watch it burn. Such a sad story.